Sugar Means Ships, circa 1918

Item — Folder: 12

Identifier: A1999-081-016

Scope and Contents

Political cartoon of ships crossing over to France, a woman drinking from a cup with a straw that siphons off the sugar from the ships in the ocean, and an explantory text below.

Dates

Creation: circa 1918

Creator

Fuhr, E. (Ernest), 1874-1933 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Full Extent

1 item/s : Print on paper ; overall: 15 1/4 x 19 in.

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Exhibition Label

Object labels, "'Americans, Do Your Bit': World War I in Posters" Opened 3 June 2017

Sugar Means Ships, 1917-1918 Ernest Fuhr (1874-1933) Printed by the Carey Printing Company New York Gift of Diana Korzenik and Andrew S. Dibner, A99/81/16

The United States Food Administration wanted citizens to cut back on sugar so that the ships that had previously imported it could instead be used to transport soldiers and war goods. The USFA pushed Louisiana molasses and sugar cane syrup as alternate sweeteners. Hoover"s plan allowed Americans two pounds of sugar per person each month. Overseas compulsory rationing limited Britons to two pounds, French citizens to seventeen ounces and Italians to eleven ounces. As a comparison, before the war each English citizen consumed about seven and three-quarters pounds of sugar a month.